CO101 Introducing Pastoral Counseling I: Theory and Practice
Overview
In this introduction, Dr. Eric Johnson identifies the seven pillars of pastoral counseling, essential skills needed, and issues of human development. He emphasizes the biblical view of God and human nature so you can care for others in a way that expresses Christ’s love. This course is beneficial for anyone involved in Christian counseling.
Top Highlights
“I want to emphasize how important it is that it’s your responsibility when you’re counseling people to create these conditions of trust. We need to have the highest ethical standards and concern for peoples’ ethical living, and I take that very seriously. But we need to do so in what I would call a grace-dominant way that communicates fundamentally that we are for the person and not their enemy.” (source)
“But redemption works now in our lives to help us to become better able to glorify God. So, pastoral counseling is aiming at facilitating the application of Christ’s redemption so that more and more we can glorify God and live for the end for which God has created us.” (source)
“The original Hebrew word, kabod, has this root meaning of ‘weight’ or ‘significance.’” (source)
“Counseling is especially interested in the healing of damaged, sinful image-bearers who don’t resemble God as much as they could. And so Christian counseling, pastoral counseling, is interested in thinking about how to help promote the healing of our souls so that more and more we can come to manifest the glory of God, be more like Him, manifest His character more and more. And really that’s what counseling seeks to do. That’s dedicated to the glory of God.” (source)
“‘How does the process of counseling manifest His greatness?’ How does it manifest His goodness, His beauty? How does it show Himself to us?” (source)
- Title: CO101 Introducing Pastoral Counseling I: Theory and Practice
- Author: Eric L. Johnson
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Education › Pastoral counseling; Pastoral counseling
- Resource ID: LLS:CO101JOHNSON
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:54:09Z
Eric L. Johnson (PhD, Michigan State University) trained as an academic psychologist and is Lawrence and Charlotte Hoover Professor of Pastoral Care at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Foundations for Soul Care and the coeditor of God Under Fire and Christianity and Psychology: Four Views. An associate editor of the Journal of Psychology and Theology, he is the director of the Society for Christian Psychology and the Institute for Christian Psychology.